John Muir. 
 
The Century Co: 1912. First edition. Octavo. Erosion of the gilding on the cover and the gilded letters of the spine. White scuffing along the bottom and top of the boards. One tip of the bottom board is a little bent. The corner of the bottom-edge and the fore-edge is smudged. There are small specks of dirt at the top of the page from the endpapers to the title page. Dots of dirt are on a few pages throughout the book, and two pages have extremely small tears above their text, but in general the text is clean. Maps and photos are crisp and included. 284 pages. Very good. 
 
Our great writer of the natural history of the west on the great National Park of the west. 
 
"Down through the middle of the Valley flows the crystal Merced, River of Mercy, peacefully quiet, reflecting lilies and trees and the onlooking rocks; things frail and fleeting and types of endurance meeting here and blending in countless forms, as if into this one mountain mansion Nature had gathered her choicest treasures, to draw her lovers into close and confiding communion with her."